Japan’s largest lender by asset said net profit came in at 315 billion yen ($2.82 billion) for the quarter, up from 289 billion yen a year earlier.

For the full year ending March, the bank retained its net profit forecast of 850 billion yen, down 14 percent from the previous year and below an average estimate of 926.2 billion yen from 13 analysts polled by Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S. ($1 = 111.6200 yen) (Reporting by Taiga Uranaka; Editing by Himani Sarkar)